Download Astronomy

Subject: ______Astronomy_____________________________ Grade(s): _____9-12__________________
Month
Instructional Materials: ____________________________________________________________
Topics
Intro and Perspective
Activities
Pre Test
Week 1
Week 2
SC 001
Project
Constellations
E5.1A
Describe the position and motion of our solar system in our galaxy and the overall scale,
structure, and age of the universe.
Stellarium
Universe Scale
Week 3
P1.1A Generate new questions that can be investigated in the laboratory or field.
P1.1C Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and techniques (e.g.,
selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity–length, volume,
weight, time interval, temperature–with the appropriate level of precision).
P1.1D Identify patterns in data and relate them to theoretical models.
P1.1g Based on empirical evidence, explain and critique the reasoning used to draw
a scientific conclusion or explanation.
Metric and Sig Digs
Star Charts
MCF Benchmarks, or Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCEs)
Solar System
Walk
E5.3A
Explain how the solar system formed from a nebula of dust and gas in a spiral arm of
the Milky Way Galaxy about 4.6 Ga (billion years ago).
Celestial Bodies
Rocket Project E5.1A
Week 4
Describe the position and motion of our solar system in our galaxy and the overall scale,
structure, and age of the universe.
Week 5
Aerodynamics and rocket
systems
Week 6
Newton’s Laws of Motion
Week 7
Measuring Earth Mass
Newton’s Law of Gravity
Rocket Project P4.3f Calculate the impact speed (ignoring air resistance) of an object dropped from
a specific height or the maximum height reached by an object (ignoring air
resistance), given the initial vertical velocity.
Rocket Project P3.3A Identify the action and reaction force from examples of forces in everyday
situations (e.g., book on a table, walking across the floor, pushing open a door).
P3.3b Predict how the change in velocity of a small mass compares to the change in
velocity of a large mass when the objects interact (e.g., collide).
Earth Mass
Lab
P3.6A Explain
earth-moon interactions (orbital motion) in terms of forces.
P3.6B Predict how the gravitational force between objects changes when the
distance between them changes.
P3.6C Explain how your weight on Earth could be different from your weight on
another planet.
P3.6d Calculate force, masses, or distance, given any three of these quantities, by
applying the Law of Universal Gravitation, given the value of G.
Rocket Height
Project
P4.3f Calculate
Space Technology
Space Tech
Project
P4.6C Explain
Shuttle Transit Systems
(Shuttle)
Columbia
Disaster
P4.6C Explain
Optics and Telescopes
Telescope Lab P4.9B Explain how various materials reflect, absorb, or transmit light in different
ways.
the impact speed (ignoring air resistance) of an object dropped from
a specific height or the maximum height reached by an object (ignoring air
resistance), given the initial vertical velocity.
why there is a time delay between the time we send a radio message
to astronauts on the moon and when they receive it.
Week 9
Week 8
Trigonometry
Week 11
Week 10
why there is a time delay between the time we send a radio message
to astronauts on the moon and when they receive it.
Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble’s
Troubles
P4.6h Explain
The Apollo Program
Apollo Journal
P1.2j Apply
Light / Electromagnetism
Spectrum
Analysis
P4.9C Explain
Doppler Lab
E5.1A
Describe the position and motion of our solar system in our galaxy and the overall scale,
structure, and age of the universe.
E5.1b
Describe how the Big Bang theory accounts for the formation of the universe.
E5.1c
Explain how observations of the cosmic background radiation have helped determine the age
of the universe.
E5.1d
Differentiate between the cosmological and Doppler red shift.
Week 12
the relationship between the frequency of an electromagnetic wave
and its technological uses.
Week 14
Week 13
science principles or scientific data to anticipate effects of technological
design decisions.
Spectroscopy
Doppler Effect and Stellar
Movement
Week 15
why the image of the Sun appears reddish at sunrise and sunset.
Universe
Scale Activity
E5.1A
Describe the position and motion of our solar system in our galaxy and the overall scale,
structure, and age of the universe.
E5.1b
Describe how the Big Bang theory accounts for the formation of the universe.
Star’s and Our Sun
Sunspot
Project
HR Diagram and Star
Classification
HR Lab
E5.2A
Identify patterns in solar activities (sunspot cycle, solar flares, solar wind).
E5.2B
Relate events on the Sun to phenomena such as auroras, disruption of radio and satellite
communications, and power disturbances.
E5.2C
Describe how nuclear fusion produces energy in the Sun.
E5.2D
Describe how nuclear fusion and other processes in stars have led to the formation of all the
other chemical elements
E5.2e
Explain how the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram can be used to deduce other parameters
(distance).
E5.2h
Compare the evolution paths of low, moderate and high mass stars using the H-R diagram.
E5.2g
Explain how the balance between fusion and gravity controls the evolution of a star
(equilibrium).
Week 18
Week 17
Week 16
Cosmology